Don Brash was Governor to 2002 when numbers were dropping. Allan Bollard was 2002 - 2012 with numbers up around 5 FTEs a year. Graham Wheeler 2012- 2017 with numbers flat. Adrian Orr from 2018 with ...

You often hear people claim they are not anti-semitic, just anti-zionist. On campuses they demand zionists be banned etc. So in this post I explore what a Zionist is and is not. I'm first going to ...

The details of the Mossad operation against Hezbollah is so incredible, you would think it would be implausible as a film plot. They include. Built 5,000 pagers and sold them to Hezbollah Each pager w ...

The 149 projects released today for inclusion in the Government’s one-stop-shop Fast Track Approvals Bill will help rebuild the economy and fix our housing crisis, improve energy security, and address ...

Wellington City Council says it’s sensitively managing the removal of pro-Palestine graffiti, with official documents showing several left-wing councillors recently requested that council staff not ...

A big upset in voting for the UK Conservative leadership. James Cleverly who won the second to last round of MP voting, got knocked out in the final round, and won't proceed to the members vote. Here' ...

The Government has announced a new support programme for the residential construction market while the economy recovers, Housing Minister Chris Bishop and Building and Construction Minister Chris Penk ...

Christopher Luxon and Chris Hipkins recently disagreed on whether they think Māori ceded sovereignty when they signed the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. So I thought it would be interesting to see what ...

Establish a new entity separate from the Ministry of Education, to assume ownership and asset management responsibility for the school property portfolio. Clarify roles and responsibilities for the ...

Stats NZ has reported the data from the census on sexual orientation and gender identity. It is very useful to have accurate population counts. Gender (Cis) Female 51.6% (Cis) Male 47.7% Trans female ...

Readers will be aware of how WCC set up an inquiry into allegations a Councillor had leaked information to the media about the proposed corporate welfare deal with Reading Cinemas. Many months later ...

Smith, who is a former director of Wellington Airport. He notes: The Officers’ paper, that vociferously argues to continue with the sales process, is a mixture of a well reasoned and economically ...